Samsung Launches The Galaxy S 4 With A Baffling, Overproduced Broadway-Style Show

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I’m watching the live stream of the Samsung Galaxy S 4 launch event in New York, and I cannot stop laughing.
In theory, illustrating different features of your new phone using real-world scenarios isn’t a terrible idea. And if you must hold your event at Radio City Music Hall, why not get theatrical? But what’s impressive here is how the skits are both terribly written and unconvincing (like, maybe intentionally so because that makes it better?), and yet Samsung is really committing to them — actors get played on and off with cheesy music, and there have been several dance
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